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The Weakness in Strengths-based Leadership

The Weakness in Strengths-based Leadership

We love the strength’s-based leadership approach. It challenges us to know what our natural gifts are and build on them. But if we’re not careful it can make us blind to our opportunities to improve. – InPower Editors I recently worked with a Vice President who was an...

Keys to Success: 2 Tricks for Goal-Setting and Personal Change

Keys to Success: 2 Tricks for Goal-Setting and Personal Change

Leadership, career and success gurus place a huge focus on goals as keys to success. There are tons of articles, books, videos, classes and “systems” on how to set goals, how to organize them and how to “keep” them. Entire franchises have been built on this one...

What are Long-Term Goals for Your Career and Why You Should Set Them

What are Long-Term Goals for Your Career and Why You Should Set Them

If you’re focused on achieving your highest potential, you need to set long-term goals for your career. In any situation, goal-setting gives you clarity and direction, which helps you stay focused. In career planning and strategy, however, goals are the critical piece...

Archetypal Personal Branding: A Woman’s Best Business Friend

Archetypal Personal Branding: A Woman’s Best Business Friend

Practical experience and research both tell us that women struggle more than men to speak up and promote themselves. Even women who speak up often find it hard to “sell” themselves. If you’re on the corporate ladder this can slow (or stop) your climb; when you’re...

Update: Newest Research on Women in Leadership (March ’23)

Update: Newest Research on Women in Leadership (March ’23)

We like to keep up with the newest data on women in leadership, updating our primary catalog, Guide to Women’s Leadership, about twice a year. Thanks for my colleague, Jennifer V. Miller we keep this extensive documentation pretty current. The guide now includes 109...

Mentee vs. Protégé: Is there a Difference?

Mentee vs. Protégé: Is there a Difference?

When you’re mentoring someone, what do you call the person to whom you’re imparting all your wisdom? Mentee seems the easy, opposite of mentor, but I don’t like the term. Putting an “ee” on something makes it sound like something you’re “doing to” someone else.  Key...

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The 3 Myths About Leadership and Control At Work

Today’s business environment can be frustrating because we all live with the widely-accepted cultural myths that “someone” can just make a decision that will clear the path for us to get our job done. And yet, the complexity of modern business often puts us in...

Moving From Managing To Leading — Taking On The Big Picture

Moving from managing to leading is a challenge because the skills that make you a good manager aren’t enough to help you excel in leadership positions. Men and women alike sometimes perceive the gap between managing and leading to be a glass ceiling when, in many...

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5 Reasons Why People Leave Bad Bosses, Not Companies

Want to be a good boss? It's not always as simple as producing good work, or even making your employees like you. Check out Paula's wisdom about how to be a great boss (and spot a bad one before you get stuck with them!) - InPower Editors I was fortunate to grow up...

What to Do When You Think Yourself Crazy

According to Gender Intelligence (link is external) expert, Barbara Annis, women tend to spend more time on introspection and worry over social interactions and daily events than men. Women tend to reflect on a situation over and over, looking at what went wrong, what...

What to Do When You are Bored to Death

With attention spans growing smaller, impatience is increasing. The more you feel stuck in the situation—listening to a co-worker’s weekend escapades, waiting in line for a cup of coffee, sitting in a meeting you could care less about—the more agitated you feel. If...

Women in Leadership

Don’t Take It Personally – Self-Esteem for Women Leaders

People talk a lot about thought leadership, and we believe it’s a powerful success strategy available to women. But let’s get real, most of us don’t feel comfortable putting our big ideas out there because we’re don’t like to get negative feedback. We like how Dana...

Research Summary: Women on Boards and Board Size Matter

Title: Women on Boards, and Board Size, Matters For Performance Study: The Evershed Board Report (John Heaps, Chairman. PR Moment 2011) Finding: The size and shape of a board play a tangible part in the success, or otherwise, of an organization. Note about The Woman...

Women in Leadership: Lessons From Motherhood (Part II)

Women in Leadership: Lessons From Motherhood (Part II)

Earlier this year when my youngest son graduated high school I celebrated with a blog post about motherhood and what I’ve learned about leadership by being a parent. Readers had a lively discussion on the post (when I posted it on Smartblog on Leadership) and several...

Diversity & Inclusion

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